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Sunday, March 19, 2017

SUNDAY REVIEW / LETTER FROM CONGRESSMAN JOE KENNEDY III

It is about how we care for
the least among us -- not how we treat the powerful.

CAPtion

It calls on us to feed the
hungry, clothe the naked, and comfort the sick.

It is kindness. It is
grace.

There is no mercy in a system
that makes health care a luxury. There is no mercy in a country that turns its
back on those that are most in need of protection: the elderly, the poor, the
sick, and the suffering.

There is no mercy in a cold
shoulder to the mentally ill.

There is no mercy in a
policy that takes for granted the sweat, the tears, and the sacrifice that
working Americans shed every day so that they might care for their families'
basic needs: food, shelter, health, and hope for tomorrow.

So when Speaker Ryan called
his repeal bill "an act of mercy" last week, I knew I had to speak
out.

It is an act of malice.

We, as Americans, are
better than this. Every working family deserves better than this. And when
millions of people have their access to health care put on the chopping block,
we have to stand up to this.

Tell your congressional
leaders they must stop this catastrophic and merciless path toward destroying
the very lifeline so many Americans depend upon.

ABOUT JOE KENNEDY III

Joseph Patrick
"Joe" Kennedy III (born October 4, 1980) is an American lawyer and
politician, serving as the U.S. Representative for Massachusetts's 4th
congressional district since 2013. He is a Democrat whose district stretches
from the western suburbs of Boston to the state's South Coast. A son of former
U.S. Representative Joseph P. Kennedy II, he worked as a Peace Corps volunteer
and as an assistant district attorney in the Cape and Islands and Middlesex
offices before his election to Congress. Kennedy is the grandson of former U.S.
Attorney General Robert F. "Bobby" Kennedy and a grandnephew of
former U.S. President John F. Kennedy.